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Secrecy in US history. I realize there is already a BS tag=secrecy, but, as is historically so often the case with classification, the one show with that tag is much more about privacy and surveillance. What I mean by "secrecy in US history" (and which I'm pitching) is more like what Matthew Connelly is discussing in his current series of LSE lectures: how the US government has sought (and not) to keep secrets. Connelly's recent second talk (audio here, metadata here) is particularly àpropos on this topic, and (IMHO) of interest. E.g., I had no idea Jefferson was a cryptographer! But I guess being a slavemaster greatly increases one's spare time ...

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